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Leonor Reyes-Garmsen vs Judge Silvestre H. Bello, Jr.

LEONOR REYES-GARMSEN, Complainant, versus JUDGE SILVESTRE H. BELLO, JR., Regional Trial Court, Branch 128, Caloocan City, Respondent.

A.M. No. RTJ-04-1877 | 2004-12-21

D E C I S I O N

YNARES-SANTIAGO, J.:

Justice delayed is justice denied. Complainant Leonor Reyes-Garmsen invokes this time-honored precept and prays that public respondent Judge Silvestre H. Bello, Jr. be penalized for delaying the disposition of an ejectment case and that he should be ordered to render decision without further delay.



The complaint arose from an ejectment case filed in the Metropolitan Trial Court of Caloocan City, Branch 49, and appealed to the Regional Trial Court of Caloocan City, Branch 128, presided by respondent judge. Complainant, who was one of the plaintiffs, alleges that upon order of the court, they filed...